It's a painful experience listening to Douglas Murray's book, The Strange Death of Europe, which I've been subjecting myself too for a while now, because he does such a good job of capturing the insanity of the whole immigraing nightmare theat we in the US are going through but that Europe has been going through for decades already. As his title says, Europe is pretty much dead ecause of their immigratrion politicies, and we could be on our way there very dsoon. In fact we're problably already there and don't know it yet. Trump and his administration are doing their best to turn it around, and succeeding far better than any of Europe
s efforts have done for them, but in spite of the successes the overwhelming impression , or at least my impression and no doubt sopme others' as well, is that we are barely keeping even with the forces that are doing the damage he is trying to undo, and could very well lose the battle altogether. Funny how other Presidents have deported illegal immigrants and nobody complained, but if Trump does it, the whole howlinMost of us on the Right concentrate on this aspect of the situation , and I'm no exception, but what I'vbe been writing about here in the last few posts is how I've come to realize this is the wrong approach to the problem,. g pack of liberal-leftist
This is a upernation problem, and we are looking at only itsThe human side is depressing enough but when I think of it as a problem that God is bringing about what little hope I can gather for human effotts to win the battle gives mway to a totla despair because I am only too aware of how impossible it would be to get anyone else who doesn't already think in these terms to see it this way, and that leaves us with no solutions at all.
What Murray is showing in his book , I've come to realize, is God's judgment on EWurope, and on America as well, on the West in general. Immigration is the main vehicle of His judgment. We are being judged, destroyed, for our sins against His moral law. We abandoned God decades agao, Europe earlier than America and America mayu claim some lingering hold on our Christian originas while they've lost theirs completely, but we're rae up to our necks in sin against God's law just as they are. There is always a itime factor involved in God's judgments. It can take years for sins to reach what scripture identifies as their time of fulfillment when judgmetn will fall on a nation, and clearly we re behind Europe, but not by a whole lot. Is Europe completely gone? It looks like it as I read Murray's gook, but on the other hand IF --that big fat impossible IF --they should suddenly wake up and seek the God they rejected, seek Him in earnest with a sincere desire to become the Christain peoples they once were, THEN I think they could be saved. And so could we if we do the same.
But what a huyge IF it is. As soon as I even think of saying what I know would have to be done my stomach drops, my hopes drop,. Even Douglas Murray would be offended. Godback o that primitive stuff? No way. He wants the uman solution, the recognition that what is being doine is irrational and that human being can do better than that and reverse course if we are shown the irrationality of our thinking and our actions and wake up to practical necessities. At least I think that must be how he is looking at it, he hasn't exactly said so, but then I'm a few hourse from finishing his book and don't know for sure if he'll have any solution at all to give in the end.
Yup, Gay marriage will have to go. Gay rights as such will have to go. Impossible, righyt? And that's only a tiny bi of what we've done to offend od. Abortion a big one. All kinds of sexual sins, rampant divorce weven among Christains, and that is a real trageidy. Maybe the churches wcould wake up to that one, I've wondered about that one anyway.
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Bringing a foreign people against a sinning nation is one of the ways God bring judgment against it. You shall plant crops but they will not surivvie, He says, or if they survive stanrangers will eat them. Somewhere in Hosea I think that one is. His strength is devoured by strangers and he doesn't know it, is also in Hosea, chapter seven I believe. They consider not that I remember all their wickendeness God says also in Hosea.
Not one among them calls upon Me, God says. The implication is that if they did they might not have o suffer all this. Is anyoe listening? They are destroyued for lack of lknowledge. KNowledge of God, knowledge of God's law. Thtis quite clear from the context. Hosea chapter four.
The enemies brought against a people to be their battering ram of judgmetn, are certainly not in the right, and they will be punished in the end too, there is nothing good about Islam but it makes an effecting battering ram against the weak sinsick West. Just as Israel's enemies Assyria and Babylon would also be punished for their violence against God's people in the end, after being God's chosen battering ram of judgment against His people in those days, so will Islam be upunished. In a way they are the "they who hate you " of my title for these posts, reigning over us already just because noody dares to do anything about the problem and they just go on egetting away with it. All that, the weakness, the ineffective reasponse to them, all that is prart of the jdugmetn we are experiencig. It isn't goig to stop until we turn to God, confess our sins do what we can to correct them, which isn't going to be easy or maybe not even possible in many cases, excpet I hope at least in some of the churches, if enough of us did that I think we could turn the tide. But it would btake personal sacrifice to do it with the strength of determiniation and perseverance needed.
Sometimes I've noticed how some of our sins are being directly targetsed by the use of Islam as the instrument of punishment. They reject what we should be rejecting but of course they do it i the wrong way, with a hideous violence and hatred. I'm thinking of the head covering for women for instance. As I understand it from the Bible, first Corinthians Eleven, women are to cover our heads in the church service, while men are required to keep their heads uncovered, remove hats as they enter asnd so on. Islam overdoes it by covering women to a ridiculous degree in some cases and with an attictude of domination over them and a winllingness to murder them for any deviation. But there is dno doubt as I have studied the problem, no doubt in my mind, that we are dsupposed to be covering our heads in church at least. I know there are many pastors who will , who do, refuse to see it this way although it was the practice of all the churches for two thousand years until about the mid twentieth century. That ought to say something but no, they are listening to one very misguided if sincere man who said it's all a cultural thing and not boto be taken literallyu after all. Geiting the churches to go back to that would be , well, probably impossible, but I've thought for a long time that tit could make a huge different to the state of the West if they would.
Modest dress is another thing we should be doing and don't. We seem to think we have a right to show off skib as much as possible elthough it clearly has implicationso f being sexually seductive and doesn't belong on the streeths for that reason, unless that's your job of course. The Bbile spells out odest dress for women in the New Testament so at least in the churches there should be a big effort to be strict about it, although they tend to emphasize avoidinbg lavish ornamentation and that wsort of thing and probably ever even gave much thought to the problems we have of showing skin back in tin the days of thye early church. Not just showing skin but shoosing clothese that emphasize bodily shape and that sorty of thing. Really, Christain men aren't any less susceptivble to women's bodies than Muslim men for pete's sake, and at least that much does get preached about from time to time. But nonChrsitains ought to be more aware of the problem too. It's not just a Muslim problem. It's all prart of the West's deviation from our Chrsitain moral framework over the last centuriy or so.
So God has brought a viciously maniacally evil enemy tl fpunish us for these deviations, perhaps.
And of course they throw homosexual off high buildingsj. Well, here we are proud in the West of our great liberality in treating homosexualis as just as normal as heterocexuals and even extending the legal contract of marriage to them. We are certainly being punished for that, but all that is required is to remove the special status, remove the marriage contract, certainly there is no idea of keep ing homoosexuals from normal citizen ship status like all the rest of us otherwise. If they want to be Chrsitains, then they hve to ggive it up altogther, but if they want to remain nonChristains they are at least to be protetcted from harm. But flaunting it, nope. Expressing it in publisc. Nope.
Let's see how that one flies. Not very far I would guess.
Are those the hardest ones to persuade people back to? I don't know. What about abortion? That one may even be harder. Or divorce. Will surely at least the churches could manage to enforce that one, but on the other hand if they haven't been making much of it for so many years already there's problably not a lot of hope there either.
Howpow about the horrible travesty of treating pornography ias a matter of freedom of speech. Insanity.
Jus a few. At least confesssing these things as sins to God woule e a huge start. Even if we can't push them back . Christinas ought to be able to do that much.
Sure, we can go on hopibng that our human efforts to make America great again will continue to be blessed by a merciful God, at least for a while. But if al lthis is really a matter of God's judgmiong us for our sins, and surely it is, it won't win in the endj.
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